There are a lot of pests and diseases that can affect evergreens, but one of the more obvious pests are Bag worms. If you see tiny pine cones that look like the associated photo you have bag-worms attached to your tree. They create movable cocoons to disguise themselves and then crawl out the top and eat the needles or leaves …
Ground cover is a nice alternative to grass in some situations and can help fill a large area where other plants will not thrive. It helps insulate the ground, provides habitat for beneficial creatures/insects and can reduce erosion. Once established a ground cover can grow thick preventing some germination, but it will not keep every weed out. Unfortunately, it takes …
Not all seedlings are the same. Seedlings can be from perennials and ornamental grasses, they can be saplings starting from trees or they can be unwanted intruders that have blown in from the winds of change. Newly installed landscapes can have waves of seedlings just like established landscapes. If the ground was tilled and amended for the preparation of the …
